grrrrrr
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Hello everyone here at the forum.
I used this forum once before and you guys helped me out with my freezing problem, and now I need your help again *sigh*
The problem I have now I qualify it as a very serious one...Vista won't start. So here it is what's happening:
I had to reformat an external HDD so I installed PartitionMagic 8 but something must have gone during the installation so PartitionMagic never opened. I gave up on that software and unistalled it. I rebooted my laptop after the unistallation and guess what, one of my partitions is gone!! My Data & Recovery partition is gone! So, I can no longer acess any of the files I had in there... I restarted the computer again and still no partition. Then I installed TestDisk to see what was happening, but I only opened the program once, because it's was too confusing for me. I shut down the computer and when I restarted it again I got this message:
"Bootmgr is missing.
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart"
So, now I have 2 problems!!Vista won't start and a partition is gone!
I read online that to solve this bootmgr problem you need to acess StartUp Repair but my Recovery partition is gone, so I'm not able to acess StartUp Repair...As I have a Recovery partition (or had...
) I don't have a Vista CD to use either...
So now what do I do? I have no way to acess StartUp Repair so I can't start the laptop. Also, will I ever be able to recover the files in the lost partition?
Thanks in advance for any help
I used this forum once before and you guys helped me out with my freezing problem, and now I need your help again *sigh*
The problem I have now I qualify it as a very serious one...Vista won't start. So here it is what's happening:
I had to reformat an external HDD so I installed PartitionMagic 8 but something must have gone during the installation so PartitionMagic never opened. I gave up on that software and unistalled it. I rebooted my laptop after the unistallation and guess what, one of my partitions is gone!! My Data & Recovery partition is gone! So, I can no longer acess any of the files I had in there... I restarted the computer again and still no partition. Then I installed TestDisk to see what was happening, but I only opened the program once, because it's was too confusing for me. I shut down the computer and when I restarted it again I got this message:
"Bootmgr is missing.
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart"
So, now I have 2 problems!!Vista won't start and a partition is gone!
I read online that to solve this bootmgr problem you need to acess StartUp Repair but my Recovery partition is gone, so I'm not able to acess StartUp Repair...As I have a Recovery partition (or had...
) I don't have a Vista CD to use either...So now what do I do? I have no way to acess StartUp Repair so I can't start the laptop. Also, will I ever be able to recover the files in the lost partition?
Thanks in advance for any help
